Improvement in fasteners for the meeting-rails of sashes



JOHN ANDREWS.

. Improvement infastenere-for the Meeting Rails of Sashes.

No. 122,348. Patented:Jan. 2,1872.-

AM PHOTO-LIT/IOMFAFH/C m M )f/ 0550!!1153 P1996538] UNITED STATES JOHNANDREWS, OF MARLBOROUGH,

MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOE TO HIM- SELF AND ASHLEY BRIGHAM, JR, OF SAMEPLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN FASTENERS FOR THE MEETING-RAILS OP SASHES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 122,348, dated January2, 1872.

To all persons to whom these presents may come:

Be it known that 1, JOHN ANDREWS, of

1 Marlborough, of the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts,have invented a new and useful Improvement in Window-Sash Fasteners; anddo hereby declare the same to be described, as follows, and representedin the accompanying drawing, of Which- Figure 1 denotes a top view, Fig.2 front elevation, and Fig. 3 an end view of my new sashfastenerasapplied to the next adjacent horizontal bars of the upper and lowersashes of a window. It isdesigned to be used upon winthe middle of thecontiguous horizontal sashbarsthat is, the bottom bar of the upper sashand the top bar of the lower sash.

Owing to the construction of a my improved fastener it can be applied tothe middle of the said contiguous bars, as it will straddle the middlevertical bar of the upper sash.

In the drawing, A denotes the pivotal frame or carrier of the lockinglever-catch B. The

said catch, instead of having its point a at the middle of the carrierA, as usual, has it disposed on one side of and at a distance from suchmiddle, as shown, the carrier being pro; videdor constructed with anotch or opening, b, to receive the middle upright bar 0 of the uppersash. The said notched carrier straddies the bar 0, and rests on and isfastened by screws cl d to the lower horizontal bar 6 of the upper sash.The locking-lever or arm-catch B is formed with abend or elbow, as shownat f, and the catch-plate O is constructed with half (g) of itslatching-flange concentric with the pivot of the catch-arm B, theremainder or other half h of the flange being correspondingly shaped,the same being so that the part h may not only serve as a finish to thecatchplate, but as a stop to arrestthe catch-lever when at the middle ofthe catchTplate. The elbow of the catch-lever is to cause the straightpart i of such lever to stand square or at right angles with the sasheswhen they are fastened.

I claim- The combination of the carrier-plate A J. R. SNOW. (24)

